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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks to Darica Fenner, Nnamdia Gooding, and Anitra Brown, as- sistant director for admissions at the Howard University School of Law, for their contributions to this project. I would like to also recognize Kezia Williams, senior program manager for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Shawna Acker-Ball, director of the UNCF/Koch Scholars Program for their encouragement and strong support of this project. Kudos to Kim Kennedy White, senior acquisitions editor at the pub- lishing company of ABC-CLIO/Greenwood/Praeger, for her unswerv- ing commitment to the production and dissemination of this book to a worldwide audience. Thanks also to Bridget Austiguy-Preschel of ABC- CLIO and Eswari Maruthu of Apex CoVantage Content Solutions for their excellent work in managing the production of this book 1106 Design LLC for preparing the index for the book and David Cavins for his assistance with the design of the book cover. I would like to also express my gratitude for the words of encourage- ment and the helpful suggestions of Danielle Holley-Walker, dean of the Howard University School of Law Dr. Emory Tolbert Warren Banfield and Yvonne Rogers. Finally, special thanks to the thousands of readers of the first edition of The African American Entrepreneur: Then and Now, for their enthusiastic support for the second edition of the book, which is now titled The African American Entrepreneur: Challenges and Opportunities in the Trump Era. All of these persons deserve praise for their role in helping to get this book out to the general public. However, I remain solely responsi- ble for the content of this book and any matters that may arise from its publication.